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Share Link copied Format epub Published May 02, 2026 Rating No reviews yet ![Romeo and Juliet](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/works/01kqn20stggft7ehkq4sn0kwnh/editions/2026-09-06-html-v1/cover.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20260925%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260925T015004Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=df5d4e99c306ffe5376466792ffdaddd5a1def0ebbe55e98b326e3cc355de217) ## About this work In Verona, two young people find love in the shadow of an inherited feud. Romeo and Juliet belong to houses divided by vendetta, where the conflict of generations reaches into every encounter and turns youthful passion into a perilous act of defiance. Shakespeare’s tragedy moves between sharp exchanges, public violence, private longing, and the pressures of family allegiance, creating a drama whose emotional force has endured across centuries. This publica.now edition presents the play in a text drawn from more than thirty copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio, preserving much of the original spelling, punctuation, and capitalization while noting editorial interventions and textual variation. For readers seeking the play’s charged language and stark human conflict, Romeo and Juliet offers a powerful encounter with one of drama’s most enduring tragedies. This Publica.now Classics edition includes a new typographic cover and publisher opening and closing pages. Sample ## Take a look inside Executive Director's Notes: In addition to the notes below, and so you will \*NOT\* think all the spelling errors introduced by the printers of the time have been corrected, here are the first few lines of Hamlet, as they are presented herein: Barnardo. Who's there? Fran. Nay answer me: Stand & vnfold your selfe Bar. Long liue the King \* \* \* \* \* As I understand it, the printers often ran out of certain words or letters they had often packed into a "cliche". . .this is the original meaning of the term cliche. . .and thus, being unwilling to unpack the cliches, and thus you will see some substitutions that look very odd. . .such as the exchanges of u for v, v for u, above. . .and you may wonder why they did it this way, presuming Shakespeare did not actually write the play in this manner. . . . The answer is that they MAY have packed "liue" into a cliche at a time when they were out of "v"'s. . .possibly having used "vv" in place of some "w"'s, etc. This was a common practice of the day, as print was still quite expensive, and they didn't want to spend more on a wider selection of characters than they had to. You will find a lot of these kinds of "errors" in this text, as I have mentioned in other times and places, many "scholars" have an extreme attachment to these errors, and many have accorded them a very high place in the "canon" of Shakespeare. My father read an assortment of these made available to him by Cambridge University in England for several months in a glass room constructed for the purpose. To the best of my knowledge he read ALL those available .… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fromeo-and-juliet-3) The sample continues in the full work. 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